Yon Quotes

36 quotes by 29 authors

Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. — Oliver Goldsmith
The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound… — Laozi
From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelÃ¨d throne, the Cherub Contemplation. — John Milton
Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright. Round yon Virgin Mother and Child. Holy Infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly… — Joseph Mohr
But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame. — William C. Bryant
Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbor, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble,… — Adam Lindsay Gordon
O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore… — Edgar Allan Poe
Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I possess the greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind, the power of choice. Today, I choose to persist without exception. No longer will I live… — Andy Andrews
...busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart... — Soren Kierkegaard
A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark,… — William Shakespeare
In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited… — Robert Burns
If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the… — Friedrich Schiller
The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?. — Robert Browning

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